CLCIV 125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Philotas, Tiber, Coele-Syria
23 Mar 2016
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February 8, 2016: sources, cicero [contemporary, the arrogance of the queen herself when she was living on the estate across the tiber makes my blood boil to recall. Likewise also the fairest of her serving-maidens, attired like nereids and graces, were stationed, some at the rudder-sweeps, and others at the ree ng-ropes. [=octavian her brother] her pleasurable society and her assiduous attentions to antony, she would become invincible and get complete control over her husband. She therefore pretended to be passionately in love with antony herself, and reduced her body by slender diet; she put on a look of rapture when antony drew near, and one of faintness and melancholy when he went away. Caesarion was believed to be a son of the former caesar, by whom cleopatra was left pregnant. In the second place, he proclaimed his own sons by.
